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Re: searching for libtool.m4 in tests/defs
- From: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf dot Wildenhues at gmx dot de>
- To: automake at gnu dot org, Libtool <libtool at gnu dot org>
- Cc:
- Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 18:19:46 +0200
- Subject: Re: searching for libtool.m4 in tests/defs
- Organization: Department of Numerical Simulation, University of Bonn
- References: <20040526164632.GA10923@iam.uni-bonn.de> <40B60FFB.2060106@gnu.org>
* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Thu, May 27, 2004 at 05:57:47PM CEST:
> Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
*snip*
> | Automake, a Libtool or a user problem? Why is there no standard way to
> | ask a libtoolize for its corresponding m4 files (at least, one would
> | think, newer versions would improve this situation)?
>
> That is a good idea. What do you think the interface should be? Maybe:
>
> $ libtoolize --macro-files
> /usr/local/share/libtool/m4/libtool.m4
> /usr/local/share/libtool/m4/ltdl.m4
> /usr/local/share/libtool/m4/ltoptions.m4
> /usr/local/share/libtool/m4/ltsugar.m4
> /usr/local/share/libtool/m4/ltversion.m4
As I was very unsure about what tools will ever need this -- maybe.
I'm not sure if I want the switch --ltdl (and whatever other switches
libtoolize will ever have that change the set of macro files) to affect
the output (maybe --all-macro-files as well?). The other idea that
springs to my mind is to have
libtoolize --macro-srcdir
give me the directory from which aclocal could pull those macro files.
I'm not in a position to decide as I know far too little about the
overall machinery involved.
Regards,
Ralf